Fishing-rod



UNITED STATES PATENT Crrrca.

SAMUEL G. MONCE, OF BRISTOL, CONNECTICUT.

FISHING-ROD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,165, dated October 25, 1887.

Application filed Ap1il20, 1887. Serial No. 235,499. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

l$e it known that I, SAMUEL G. MONCE, reslding at Bristol, in the county of Hartford .and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Fishing- Rods; and I do declarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in metallic tubular spri rig-tempered fishing-rods, the object being to produce an article of simple, cheap, and convenient construction, elegant appearance, uniform flexibility and strength in every direction of flexion, and adapted to be made in the very lightest as well as in the heavier grades of rods.

With these ends in view my invention consists in a spirally-wound tubular metallicfishing-rod.

My invention further consists in a spirallywound tubular metallic fishingrod having certain details of construction,as will be hereinafter described, and pointed outin the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in elevation of one form which my improved rod may assume. Fig.2 is a broken View showing thejoint made between two sections thereof; and Fig. 3 is adetached broken view of one of the sections, showing both of its ends.

As herein shown, the rod consists of four spirally-wound tubular metallic sections, A, B, C, and D, and a butt, E, and reel F, of ap proved construction. The said sections are designed to telescope within each other, and are thereto re -enforced each at its outer end with an exterior binding-ring, G, and at its inner end with a similar ring, H, as clearly shown by Fig. 3 of the drawings. The sections are also provided between their ends with closely-fitting exterior rings, I, which may be applied with especial reference to reenforcing the sections or of regulating their flexibility, or both. Preferably the edges of the strips from which the sections are wound are lapped edge over edge, and with an increase of lap in proportion to the increase in the diameter of the section, whereby the required gradation in stiffness from the tip to the butt of the rod is secured. Preferably,

also, the lapping edges of the strips are firmly united by soldering or brazing.

By spirally coiling the metal I am enabled to make a rod not only of extreme lightness, but of uniform flexibility and strength, inasmuch as whatever of stiffness or rigidity there is in the lapped and blended edges of the strip is distributed in a spiral line around the rod and equalized, so that under tension the rod yields exactly as well in one direction as in another. It is therefore as strong also in one position as in another.

My improved rod is also easy and cheap to make and finish, of elegant appearance, and combines in a great degree the requirements of the sport.

If desired, the rod may be made to joint instead of to telescope; and I would have it un derstood that I do not limit myself to the exact construction and arrangement of parts shown and described, buthold myselfatliberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

I am aware that a spring-tempered tubular metallic fishing-rod is not broadly new, that spirally-wound tapering metallic tubes are old, and that spirally-wound flexible ferrules have been employed for uniting the sections of a wooden fishing-rod.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isr l. A spring-tempered spiraliy wound tapering tubular fishing rod formed from metallic ribbon, the edges of which are rigidly united on a line extending spirally around the rod, whereby the stiffening effect of their union on the rod is equalized and the rod made equally flexible and strong in every direction, substantially as set forth.

2. A spring-tempered spirally-wound tapering tubular fishing-rod formed from metallic ribbon, the edges of which are overlapped on a line extending spirally around the rod, whereby the stiffening effect of their lapping union on the rod is equalized and the rod made equally flexible and strong in every direction, substantially as set forth.

3. Aspring-temperedspirally-Woundtapering tubular fishing-rod formed from metallic ribbon, the edges thereof being overlapped on a line extending spirally around the rod and increasing in the extent of theirlap as the rod increases in diameter, whereby the stiffening effect of their lapping union on the rod is equalized and the rod made equally flexible and strong in every direction, substantially as set forth.

4. A section for a springtempered spirallywound tapering tubular fishing-rod, such section being formed from metallic ribbon, and provided at one end with an inside ring and at the other end with an outside ring, the

edges of the ribbon being joined on a line extending spirally around the rod, whereby the 15 specification in the presence of two subscribing 20 witnesses.

SAMUEL G. MONGE.

Vitnesses:

MILEs L. PECK,

EDWARD INGRAHAM. 

